Haters are gonna hate, and apparently, a lot of people hate Phillies fans.
In a recent survey conducted by InsightPest, Phillies fans are among the most annoying baseball fans in the country.
Phillies fans came in fifth with 4.37 percent of the vote behind the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, and Los Angeles Dodgers in the survey of 13,500 fans.
Somehow the Mets were only ninth, wish is crazy, but at the same time makes sense considering they haven’t done anything remarkable lately. Those pesky Nats were a blip on the radar, as they typically are, with 0.88 percent of the votes.
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A big part of this survey, which looked at the four major sports plus college football and basketball, is likely that a lot of people just voted for the Philadelphia team. Eagles fans finished third behind the Patriots and Cowboys on the list and the Flyers were fifth behind Boston, Pittsburgh, Toronto, and Chicago.
The 76ers were a distant fourth behind the Lakers, Warriors, and Celtics with 4.89 percent, while Penn State Football fans were also ranked fourth behind Alabama, Ohio State, and Michigan.
Eagles fans finished eighth in the all-around most annoying fan base in all of sports vote, which had the Patriots number one and all Boston fans meshed together for third.
None of the fan bases picked Philadelphia as the baseball fan base that annoys them the most, with the majority of that love going towards the Yankees.
It’s not like we boo players who hit walk-offs for us, right? Right?
Just logged onto Twitter to say LOL @Mets. That is all pic.twitter.com/eiCnw1Jv3A
— PHILLIES TBOH (@FS_TBOH) September 4, 2019
Despite only having a 7.2 percent chance to make the playoffs this year, Phils fans have been coming out in droves for the first time in a long time. Going into Tuesday’s game the Phillies hosted 2,467,013 fans, the fifth most in the National League thus far and 300,000 more than last year when they finished third-last in the NL.
Last year was the first time the Phillies drew two million fans since 2014. They likely won’t hit the three million fans who came to The Bank in 2013 or the 3.7 million from 2010, but the fans are representing the team well despite playing .500 baseball since the all-star break.